Last week, she received an acceptance letter from the New York Academy of Art.

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Eileen Guggenheim, one of the founding members of New York Academy of Art in 1982, opted for slacks and a diaphanous, sequined embroidered top by Dries van Noten.

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She married an American she met as a student of graphic design at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, and they were off to New York.

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The next round in the realist reputation match: "George Bellows, " a major new retrospective, opens June 10 at Washington's National Gallery of Art, traveling to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for a Nov. 15 opening before moving to London's Royal Academy of Arts next March.

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